Linux Fund is raising money to improve OpenStreetMap support in Gnash media player

Open source Flash player expands its marketing and funding

Santa Clara, California – April 22nd, 2009 – Linux Fund has expanded its partnership with Sandro Santilli of the Gnash media player team to bring OpenStreetMap editing support to this open source Flash® player. This work will also improve YouTube compatibility and joins Linux Fund's existing effort to bring the Real Time Messaging Protocol support to Gnash.

"I am excited about having Gnash fully support OpenStreetMap because together these projects can really demonstrate what amazing things can be done with free software." says Rob Savoye of the Open Media Now! Foundation.

"As a GIS specialist and open source evangelist, I am delighted to be working with Sandro and Rob on OpenStreetMap support." says Linux Fund executive director David Mandel.

Gnash is an Open Media Now! Foundation initiative that is part of the GNU Project. Flash is an animation file format pioneered by Macromedia which continues to be supported by their successor company, Adobe. Flash has been extended to include audio and video content, and programs written in ActionScript, an ECMAScript-compatible language. Gnash is based on GameSWF and supports most SWF v7 functionality, plus portions of SWF v8 and v9.

Sandro Santilli has worked since 1994 in the information and telecomunications fields, with a focus toward use, promotion and improvement of open source software. He has work experience in both Italy and North America, and has built a breath of skills focused on the continuos evolution of products, processes and services in the ICT industry.

About the Open Media Now! Foundation

OMNow! supports free ways to create, to distribute and to display digital creative content. We are dedicated to the development, support and empowerment of an open media infrastructure for companies and individuals who desire more control over product technology and content. Our foundation opens the media market by actively developing operating system-agnostic and cross-platform solutions, and by conducting legislative research on media-related topics.

Linux Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides financial and advisory support to the free and open software community. Linux Fund has given away over $750,000 to open source events and development since its founding in 1999 using funds earned by its line of rewards credit cards and direct donations.
Visit www.linuxfund.org for more information.

Linux Fund partners to expand streaming media support in Gnash open source media player

Corvallis, Oregon – December 15th, 2008 – Linux Fund has partnered with Gnash project developer Sandro Santilli to bring the Real Time Messaging Protocol support to this open source Flash player. This project will enable users to enjoy streaming video from a number of popular web sites and the open source Red5, Cygnal and Dimdim servers. The Gnash/RTMP project joins the LiVES video editing project as part of Linux Fund's growing open media initiative.

"This work will connect several open media client and server-side projects and this new source of funding couldn't have come at a better time." says Rob Savoye of the Open Media Now! Foundation.

Gnash is an Open Media Now! Foundation initiative that is part of the GNU Project. Flash is an animation file format pioneered by Macromedia which continues to be supported by their successor company, Adobe. Flash has been extended to include audio and video content, and programs written in ActionScript, an ECMAScript-compatible language. Gnash is based on GameSWF and supports most SWF v7 functionality, plus portions of SWF v8 and v9.

Sandro Santilli has worked since 1994 in the information and telecomunications fields, with a focus toward use, promotion and improvement of open source software. He has work experience in both Italy and North America, and has built a breath of skills focused on the continuos evolution of products, processes and services in the ICT industry.

Gnash/RTMP work description:

Update the rtmpget utility to fetch video resources

Implement an IOChannel abstraction of the RTMP protocol

Implement 'rtmp' URI schemes in the NetConnection ActionScript class

Implement media streaming support in NetStream the ActionScript class

About the Open Media Now! Foundation

OMNow! supports free ways to create, to distribute and to display digital creative content. We are dedicated to the development, support and empowerment of an open media infrastructure for companies and individuals who desire more control over product technology and content. Our foundation opens the media market by actively developing operating system-agnostic and cross-platform solutions, and by conducting legislative research on media-related topics.

Linux Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides financial and advisory support to the free and open software community. Linux Fund has given away over $750,000 to open source events and development since its founding in 1999 using funds earned by its line of rewards credit cards and direct donations.
Visit www.linuxfund.org for more information.